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May 2, 2012

The Odyssey comes to life!

Invitations hand decorated by the crew:

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Ramayana links

British Library -- Inside Story
British Library exhibit
Cornell museum
Cyber-Rama
Divine Loophole
Guardian BL review
House of Anansi
Illustrated special edition
Met exhibit
Notes on the Ramayana
Rama & Sita (Shadow dance)
Ramayana in Focus
Ramayana in India
Ramayana musical (in Memphis)
Ramayana Trail
Seattle exhibit
Shadow Puppets
Sita - Silent Pillar of Strength
Sita Sings the Blues
Sitayana
Versions of the Ramayana

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Gilgamesh links

Ancient Mesopotamia -- University of Chicago
Ancient Near Eastern Art -- The Met
BBC A History of the World -- Flood Tablet
Berlin -- Museum of the Ancient Near East
Brothers Quay: "This Unnameable Little Broom"
Cuneiform writing system
Flood tablet -- British Museum
George Smith, rediscoverer of the flood tablet
Gilgamesh -- at The Met
Gilgamesh: An Epic Obsession -- Ziolkowski
Hammurabi's Code
Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations
Ishtar and the Bull of Heaven -- Kevin Dixon
Ishtar Gate (Khan Academy)
Kovacs translation
Lessons from a Demigod
Map & Timeline
Martinu's oratorio "Gilgamesh"
Mesopotamia -- British Museum
Mesopotamia for Kids
Michael Wood on Mesopotamia
Old Testament Parallels (PDF)
Oriental Institute -- Chicago
Pintarest -- Mesopotamia & Iraq
Podcast History of the World
Prezi project
Project Gilgamesh
Standard of Ur
Teaching the Epic of Gilgamesh
The Buried Book -- review of Damrosch
The first superhero
The Invention of Writing
The Mesopotamians -- They Might Be Giants
Twenty Squares: The Royal Game of Ur
VIDEO: The Epic of Gilgamesh (30 minutes)

Gilgamesh lending library

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

Step Into: Mesopotamia by Lorna Oakes

Rich & Poor in Mesopotamia: Iraq In Ancient Times (Rich and... by Richard Dargie

The Revenge of Ishtar (Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)) by Ludmila Zeman

Odyssey links

Ancient Greeks
Bearden's "Black Odyssey"
Blago cites "Ulysses"
British Museum
Center for Hellenic Studies
Cultivation of Justice (Nagy lectures)
Derek Walcott's "Omeros"
Glossaries
Gluck's "Meadowlands"
Greek mythology in classical art
Homeric singing
Humanist education
Keats on Chapman's Homer
Lost in the Odyssey
Map of Odysseus' journey
Memphis' own Odysseus
Mentor-ing
Mythweb
On reading Homer
Perseus digital library
Plato on rhetoric and poetry
Questions for consideration
Tell me o Muse
The Homer Multitext
Troilus and Cressida
Vico
What makes a poem epic?

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